CSCS is pleased to announce the following two courses that will take place in Manno during June. Fast Parallel I/O on HPC systems – 9-10 June 2011 Improved scalability of parallel computational kernels in modern HPC applications frequently exposes the time taken to access data storage devices as the major continuing bottleneck to further scalability […]

Seattle, WA and Manno, Switzerland – May 17, 2011 – Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. announced that it has signed a contract with the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) to upgrade its current Cray XT5 system, nicknamed “Monte Rosa” to a Cray XE6 supercomputer. The Monte Rosa system at CSCS will be upgraded with Cray’s […]

If you did not have the chance to visit CSCS in the last months, then you can be interested in having a panorama view of the computer room (thanks to Mario Valle for the picture). As viewed from left to right: An old Dell PC used to demonstrate the computing power of a single CPU, […]

On April 21 CSCS announced the relaunch of the newly designed CSCS web site. This redesign introduces a more up-to-date, dynamic layout, which will allow CSCS to better inform the public as well as the users about what is happening at the Center. This update features three new features: a new, dynamic CSCS […]